The Theme Of Fahrenheit 451 Persuasive Essay

Persuasive Essay

During This semester in English The books,stories and movies we read and watched all had a certain theme relevant to them. A Common Theme Found in The Book, “Fahrenheit 451” By Ray Bradbury, The Movie “the Power Of 1” and The story “Harrison Bergeron” By Kurt Vonnegut is the Theme of Persistence for equality and the Idea that If they keep trying they will reach what in their minds is equality.

In the Book Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradberry, There is a “Utopian” civilization, set to be in the future. In this society books are banned from reading, because the political leaders feel best, to have the People learn many facts at a time, as compared to gaining knowledge from books. He people in charged of Burning and getting rid of

books are labeled a “ fireman”. In this story one of the firemen called “Montag” Who is supposed to be Getting rid of as many books as possible, Hides some books he finds into his own collection, because he is really in favor of learning and aining knowledge from these books. He believes it is his right to have the books so he persists by Hiding them and doing what he feels is right.

In the movie of power of 1, There is a little Boy Called P.K who grows up in an Afrikaans boarding school.

He is the only english boy there And grows up arund racism and hate towards him and TheAfcrican american People. After he is finsihed witht the chool, he meets a mentor named Karl” doc” vallensteen He gains knowledge and learns what true equality is from this one man. He sees doc daily until Doc is prisoned for crimes of being an enemy to germany during world war 2. P.K visits doc daily at the prison and learns to see how unfair the Black people are being treated. He matures and and when he is introduced to “geel Piet” he realizes he Must do something. He risks his life working with doc attempting to hand the african americans contrabnd and other substances that whites are allowed but not the Africans. He even goes to the trouble of delivering their mee=ssages to the african american families and if convited could be sentenced to prison. This shows how he truly believes in equality and how he goes out of his way to preserve equality in any way he can, he persists and fights for his equality and african

americans.

Likewise with the previous two Pieces we have studied this semester, The story “ HArrisoon Begeron” demonstrates persistence of fighting for true equality.

The story is set in another Utopian society Where the People, regardless of age or gender or size, have to maintain a certain disability depending on what they look like or if they are strong, or if they have certain distinct features. The purpose of this tactic is to attempt to make everyone equal, so if one person is stronger than another they have a arger disability or to make it so that no one person is more beautiful than another and so that they have equal power. The problem with this is that the people i their society can’t control what they are born with and if they are big, meaning some people have a larger disability than others. In this society people are punished if their artificial disabilities come off. In the story there is a man named harrison bergeron who is born Physically more mature and taller. He is forced to put hundreds of pounds on his back in order to keep him from his physical potential. He decides to take off his disabilities and is prisoned for this. He realizes the unfairness and unequality and uses his owers to break out of prison. He then walks to a ballerina dance, where most of population is watching, but not before he turns on the backup generator for the arena. He then walks on the stage and proposes his idea, and shows how unfair this society i. He takes the mask off of a ballerina

dancer, and shows how beauitful she is to the crowd. This event is televised and as he is talking the government attempts to cut the broadcast. They chop off the primary connection to the broad cast and the government is under the impression ther isn’t a broadcast. They then shoot him on stage for displayinig equalness and his true rights. The crowd, and most people in their society then see this. Most get an nderstanding of how unequal their lives are, and harrison bergeron got killed for doing so. This shows persistence of equality because in this sory, Harrison Bergeron risks, and gets his life taken away.

In english this year we read many short stories, books and watched films. These films that we studying taught important lessons and facts. The stories harrison Bergeron, FAhrenheit 451, and the Movie power of 1, all had a similar theme which was persistence of euqality